"Navy crews swab the deck of the Prinz Eugen in an attempt to reduce radiation levels after ""Shot Baker,"" the July 25, 1946 underwater detonation of a plutonium bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Dozens of vessels were hopelessly contaminated by gigantic radioactive waves and a curtain of poisoned mist. Photo: U.S. Naval Institute 1946"
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